SLSL: newspaper photo

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 "a brightly colored pin-up of brigitte bardot was flanked by newspaper photos 
 of the duke of windsor making his abdication speech and the HINDENBURG going up 
 in flames". (low-lands, p. 66, picador edition)

 that lakehurst catastrophy of the german airship hindenburg, which was among  
 the hottest high-tech of its time, happened just 2 (in words: "two") days   
 before trp entered this world. must still have been the talk of the town when  
 he came here: this can - as i once suggested to you in a former millenium - be 
 considered to be a kinda unconscious motivation for writing gravity's rainbow. 
 the mention in this early story makes my thesis plausible, no? 


 kai (while max roach & friends play "members, don't git weary")